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But if you've got Sports Pack, you should be able to get it, right? I couldn't get NESN HD until last month because I'm out of the restricted Boston area that had it for months, but now I have it, so now it should be the same with CSNE HD, I would think.

...got Sports Pack (620SD, etc-have had it for several years); that's not the issue....I think it may be Comcasts' fault; all I know is the the people at D* have no clue about this issue....

The Heat-Celtics game, Friday, is scheduled to be shown on 95, hope there isn't a blackout; Sunday at Orlando is NBATV, so the next 2 are good, anyways....

I am being blacked out on 620-1 and the League Pass channel. I am not in Heat territory, and as such I am getting the CSNE SD broadcast on 620 and in League Pass -- but am getting a 727 in error on the corresponding HD channels.

I am being blacked out on 620-1 and the League Pass channel. I am not in Heat territory, and as such I am getting the CSNE SD broadcast on 620 and in League Pass -- but am getting a 727 in error on the corresponding HD channels.

yea me too.... D* screwed up I am sure. I posted a thead about this already

This is getting me mad,i set my 2 hd-dvrs one to record in sd on the 755or was that 753? anyway i set the oter tuner to record channel 95.well my dvr didn't record channel 95 but did record only the sd channel. so i went to checkmy other dvr where i set it to record o channel 620-1 the HD channel but all i got was a searching for authorizaton message by the time i got the game it was 6-2 heat, then i found the game in HD on another channel 753-1!!! this is confusing i don't know which channel to set up my dvr to record the game in HD,as i am rarely home at the start of the game, so i guess i;ll be setting 2 of my dvrs to record the game on 4 differnt channels in the hope that one of the recordings is in HD.I cant wait for verizon to get the nba league pass in hd so i can switch back to the reliable tivo.

Tonight's Celtics game is a home game and should be broadcast in HD on 620-1. The Comcast Sports Net web site says that the game will be in HD. But, the DirecTV listings in my DVR and on the web site don't list it on 620-1, just in SD on 620. I did a manual recording on 620-1 to see if I can catch it, anyway.

Since I've been playing with the DVR Scheduler, I did a search of the DirecTV web site listings for Celtics and found that none of their home games are listed in the guide as being on 620-1.

I know that DirecTV gets their guide data from an outside provider, but why aren't there any games listed on 620-1 so I can set up recordings in HD?

As a follow-up to my earlier post, the Boston Globe today has a quote from Comcast Sports Net New England saying that they hope to have Celtics road games in HD in February 2008.

Wyc has been saying that since the beginning of the season. The Celtics head offices want it to happen. They've been lobbying Comcast for it constantly. I'm a Season Ticket holder, so I get bits and pieces of news about it - and yes, they're trying. The problem is Comcast. Comcast Sportsnet has been dragging their feet trying to get the local carriers in the road cities to get agreements for HD transmissions in place. It might happen by February, but I wouldn't count on it.

The good thing is - lots of their games towards the end of the season will be on National TV, since they are doing so well. So at the very least, we'll get TNT's ESPN's or ABC's HD feed for the impoartant games like San Antonio, Phoenix, Dallas, etc.

Tonight's Celtics game is a home game and should be broadcast in HD on 620-1. The Comcast Sports Net web site says that the game will be in HD. But, the DirecTV listings in my DVR and on the web site don't list it on 620-1, just in SD on 620. I did a manual recording on 620-1 to see if I can catch it, anyway.

Since I've been playing with the DVR Scheduler, I did a search of the DirecTV web site listings for Celtics and found that none of their home games are listed in the guide as being on 620-1.

I know that DirecTV gets their guide data from an outside provider, but why aren't there any games listed on 620-1 so I can set up recordings in HD?

The Guide data for the -1 sports channels must be updated last minute. I just checked the Guide on my HR20 for tonight's Celtics-76ers game, and the game is listed in HD on 620-1. The problem with this is that it's hard to schedule recordings for HD games in advance. Not sure why this is updated so late where there is no question that this game would be available in HD.

I checked the DirecTV.com web site guide, and it still does not show the game on 620-1. With the issues of scheduling recordings on subchannels through the web site, I couldn't have scheduled it there anyway. But, I thought it was interesting that the web site guide clearly is not driven by the same data that drives the guide data that goes into the DVRs.